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MANHATTAN — Rapper Kanye West and President-elect Donald Trump hugged it out in front of the cameras at Trump Tower Tuesday morning, professing their support for one another. "We've been friends for a long time," Trump told reporters after bro-hugging the Saint Pablo rapper at Trump Towers Tuesday morning.

That’s 7.2 million more votes than Barack Obama carried in 2008, and almost 13 million more than Mitt Romney carried in 2012. That’s YUGE ! That’s the Monster Vote. That’s also a landslide victory for Donald Trump. Another way of looking at it – that Monster Vote increase is simply adding 10% of the approximately 120 million voters who never vote in elections. And those new voters are exactly what you see showing up at Donald Trump primary campaign rallies.

Democratic strategist Harlan Hill told Neil Cavuto today that up to 40% of Bernie Sanders supporters will cross over to Donald Trump if Bernie is eliminated. Harlan Hill: Almost 40% of Bernie Sanders supporters say they will not support Hillary Clinton in the general election. And I expect that number to grow. Neil Cavuto: Alright, will where will they go? Harlan Hill: Well, I think they will either stay home or they will cross over. Neil Cavuto: Who will they cross over to? Harlan Hill: Donald Trump. That’s it. They’re not going to vote for Ted Cruz… I think that...

Of the many ways in which Donald J. Trump is disrupting American politics, one of the most compelling is his disregard for the established rules of communicating with voters. More than any other candidate, Mr. Trump embodies the evolving norms of communication that are being enabled and encouraged by technology and the matrix of connectivity that defines modern life: authenticity over authority, surprise over consistency, celebrity over experience. His approach is jarring to a political establishment that has taken very different lessons from its experiences over decades of modern campaigning. Risk-averse above all, candidates and those who advise them have...

Donald Trump won the South Carolina primary across the board, but he did particularly well with the 10 percent of voters who named immigration as the nation's top issue. In addition, some who named other issues -- the economy, national security -- were undoubtedly also concerned about immigration, and Trump's hard line likely helped him with them, too. Which is why people who follow immigration closely were stunned Thursday night when Trump, at the Fox News debate here in Detroit, announced that he has changed his position on one key element of the immigration debate -- the use of H-1B...

Humorist Dave Barry hammered the media on Wednesday's New Day for their "daily obsession with Donald Trump: "We keep asking why he's doing so well — and he's on TV all the time. He's on more than the GEICO gecko." When CNN's Alisyn Camerota defended the press coverage of Trump by using his front-runner status, Barry countered that "you can't deny the incredible impact...at this point, Kim Kardashian also could run for president and would do okay if we gave her the same level of coverage that we give to Donald Trump." [video below] Camerota first prompted the Miami Herald...

Vladimir Lenin said, “There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.” I can’t think of a better description of Ted Cruz’s relationship with the DC-Wall Street Establishment – Cruz being the scoundrel of course. Cruz’s claim of not being a tool of the political elite is like Bill Clinton telling the world, “I did not have sexual relations with that woman.” Webster’s definition of a scoundrel is a dishonest or unscrupulous person, and Cruz has become quite adroit at saying one thing while his...

I looked into Trump University. It was active in the earlier 2000s when a housing boom and then bubble were in full swing. Nearly every person that paid for the training rated it highly and many made a lot of money in real estate. But in 2008, many people lost money. In 2008, there was a massive real estate collapse due to a once-in-a-century banking collapse. Is Donald Trump responsible for the real estate collapse of the late 2000s? Of course not. Is he then responsible for people losing money? No. Greedy lawyers filed for a class action. They certified...

During his speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Friday, Sen Ted Cruz (R-TX) joked that Donald Trump had canceled his scheduled speech at the confab because he didn't want to face Fox News host Megyn Kelly. "Donald Trump is skipping CPAC. I think somebody told him Megan Kelly was going to be here," Cruz said to cheers from the crowd. "Or even worse, was told there were conservative that were going to be here. Or even worse he was told there were libertarians that were going to be here. Or even worse, they were told there were young...

As the Donald Trump bandwagon continues to steamroll over the politically correct landscape, Trump has the Washington establishment chattering like a troop of confused monkeys whose cage has been disturbed by a kid poking a stick. The Donald phenomenon has also baffled the media who are obligated to provide us with explanations, even when they have none. This hasn’t prevented the public from contributing their own answers to the mix. It’s reminiscent of the old parable of the blind men trying to describe an elephant. As the old story goes, each observer, with only their sense of touch to guide...

I have offered my analysis of this race here, as I see it for a while now... My analysis for quite some time has been this thing is Trump's to lose. In spite of this, I have never been someone who hated Cruz, on most of his policy stands I agree with him. However, when analyzing him overall I have felt that he cannot effect major change, because despite what he says, he is taking money from the same folks who have been screwing over this country to pad their pockets as the rest of the establishment... I have also...

Donald Trump warned Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) that he'll have to pay the price if he doesn't get along with Trump as president, hours after Ryan repudiated Trump for failing to disavow an endorsement from David Duke. "I'm going to get along great with Congress. Paul Ryan, I don't know whim well, but I'm sure I'm going to get along great with him," Trump said during his Super Tuesday speech. "And if i don't, he's going to have to pay a big price."